1990s These Jeff Spicoli-esque characters in this 1997 Carl's Jr. commercial share how they invented the lava lamp while high on life Popkin

History The entire 34,000-year DUNE timeline explained in one 10-minute video Thom Dunn

books The second book in Tim Powers' 'Vickery and Castine' series is even better than the first Jason Weisberger

alternate history This video imagines Dropbox in the 1980s Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Hannu Rajaniemi's Summerland: a midcentury spy thriller, with the afterlife Cory Doctorow

alternate history What if Steam had been around in 1988? Mark Frauenfelder

alternate history Making a better World War II Gregory Benford

Business "Artisanal" Nintendo console cartridge hacker creates impossible alternate history games Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Judenstaat: an alternate history in which a Jewish state is created in east Germany in 1948 Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Coming in November: Pirate Utopia, a novella by Bruce Sterling with an intro by Warren Ellis Cory Doctorow

happy mutants 20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes Thom Dunn

History What is inside an apartment in Paris abandoned for 70 years? Elías Villoro

books A People's Guide to Los Angeles, 10 years later Elías Villoro

kickstarter The Tarot of Austin Osman Spare Ferdinando Buscema

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

russia Chinese woman spent a decade building Borgesian fake Russian history on Wikipedia Thom Dunn

music Listen to this fun 8-Track tape podcast! David Pescovitz

Stunning example of stupid Anti-semitic Kentucky Republican 'meant absolutely no harm' with his misogynist rant against women's access to health care; apparently, stands by his alternate history of the Holocaust Jason Weisberger